Wednesday Wallpaper for Writers ~ April 23rd, 2014 via www.WriterzBlox.net
“Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.”
~Hannah Arendt
Weekly Writing Spark~ April 21st, 2014|| WriterzBlox.net
“I don’t know how you persist in being so stubborn”…”It’s a superpower. I was bitten by a radioactive mule.” ~ Shannon Hale
Write about what happens when you are bitten by a radioactive ___________. What unique superpower do you acquire? Are you able to fly, develop superior strength, become invisible or is it something quite unique? What is it like on your first day with this new power, are you able to master it quickly or do you develop some “control” issues?
Get creative, write and more importantly have fun! 🙂
Wednesday Wallpaper for Writers ~ April 16th, 2014 via www.WriterzBlox.net
“One of the things I had to learn as a writer
was to trust the act of writing.
To put myself in the position of writing
to find out what I was writing.”
~E.L. Doctorow
Weekly Writing Spark~ April 14th, 2014|| WriterzBlox.net
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.” ~ George R.R. Martin
What is the last book you read? Write about what happens when you switch places with the protagonist (main character). How would you navigate the story you just read? Would you follow the same path? What would you do differently? How would the story end with you as the main character?
Get creative, write and more importantly have fun! 🙂
Wednesday Wallpaper for Writers ~ April 9th, 2014 via www.WriterzBlox.net
‘You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.’ ~Truman Capote
Weekly Writing Spark~ April 7th, 2014|| WriterzBlox.net
“The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.” ~ Anaïs Nin
Write about a mysterious event in your life that has never quite been resolved. What was so mysterious about it? Did you lose something important? Did something strange occur that could not be explained? Are you still trying to find that sock that never made it out of the dryer? What do you think really happened? What lead you to your theory?
Get creative, write and more importantly have fun! 🙂
Quote of the Week via www.WriterzBlox.net ~ April 4th, 2014
“At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that — the young man or the young woman must possess or teach himself, train himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try and to try until it comes right. He must train himself in ruthless intolerance. That is, to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph. The most important thing is insight, that is … curiosity to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does. And if you have that, then I don’t think the talent makes much difference, whether you’ve got that or not.” ~ William Faulkner
Absolution ~The Broken Diaries Cover Reveal by Carlyle Labuschagne #ABSOLUTION #TheBrokeDiaries
Absolution
Confessions of a Clone
is book one in The Broken Diaries series of novellas.
Can be read as a stand alone or as a companion novella to
Expected release date: October 2014
Genre: Upper YA Science Fiction
(Unedited)
So my secret is out you say? That would depend witch secret you are referring to. That I am a clone? Everyone knows that by now. Or that I have a dark disease pulsating through my veins, one I am quite fond of? Big deal. It’s exciting, never to have to hold back, unpredictability is a drug. We all crave it. So what possible secret could I hold that is worth keeping? Imagine me giving you a sly smirk right now because I have not the misfortune of compassion that will cause me to spill my secrets. Without them there is no hand to be dealt.
Will my secret keep him close? Perhaps. But here is my confession, I have something better than secrecy. I have absolution. With me, he is not bound, it will be out of choice. With me, he never has to hold back. And I would love him for the good and especially in the bad. When I gave my word that I’d stop my tricks – I lied. That’s the thing with obsession. I does not care. It only wants, and it is so fixated on want, that it becomes need, and it shall have all it wants and needs. And while I have no time to ponder who I am, clone – what a stupid word, I am already on my way to loving him forever. That’s how I play it, because I just don’t care. Everyone knows I am nothing like my pathetic prime. That with me, it’s all bad intentions and violent, narcissistic adoration. That is not who I am. I am but one thing – in absolution.
About the author
Carlyle Labuschagne is a South African award wining author working her way into the hearts of international readers with her first two books in the Broken Trilogy. Her first young adult dystopian novel “The Broken Destiny” reached top 3 in its YA debut Category. The Sequel Evanescent won YATR literary award for best Sci-Fi book 2013.
Carlyle loves to swim, fights for the trees, and is a food lover who is driven by her passion for life. Carlyle also writes for IU e-magazine India, an inspirational non-profit magazine that aims at inspiring the world through words. The drive behind her author career is healing through words. Carlyle is also the founder of the first annual book drive – Help Build A Library in Africa Project. And hopes to launch her very own Indie book festival in Johannesburg March 2015.
“My goal as an author is to touch people’s lives, and help others love their differences and one another.
“My goal as an author is to touch people’s lives, and help others love their differences and one another.
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Thank you so much for your time!
Best wishes,
Carlyle Labuschagne
Wednesday Wallpaper for Writers ~ April 2nd, 2014 via www.WriterzBlox.net
“A successful book is not made of what is in it,
but what is left out of it.”
~ Mark Twain
